Hints and tips:
...I mean, Jon Ashworth managed to get two days on saying he’s bet £10 on whether or not there’d be an election in May....
...The deal to carve out Lionsgate Studios from the already public Lionsgate is unusual for a Spac, which typically raises money on the stock market and hunts for a private business to take public....
...Jón Blöndal of the OECD explains that in other countries, parliament is more active in scrutinising budgets, so bodies like the OBR are less prominent....
...Here are two fairly unimportant things that happened alongside the UK’s Autumn Statement, delivered by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday: — Hunt jettisoned the Economic Advisory Council that was set up...
...The choice by chancellor Jeremy Hunt extends a trend of former Treasury officials gaining top jobs at the BoE, a phenomenon that lawmakers have questioned as they seek to ensure the bank’s independence....
...Naturally, Trump blamed Biden for Friday’s ruling, calling it a “witch hunt” against the Democratic president’s political opponent worthy of a “banana republic”....
...In April this year, the publisher hired Jon Steinberg — an American digital entrepreneur and BuzzFeed graduate — as chief executive....
...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on Twitter Letters in response to this column: An aggressive approach by trustees would be risky / From Jon Bird, DB Pension Trustee, Bedlington, Northumberland...
...Jon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham who has defended Tony Blair’s record in government, said the leadership appeared to be “embarked on a witch-hunt”, not just of Corbynites but others with an independent voice...
...Sarah Breeden, a senior Bank of England official, will succeed Jon Cunliffe in November as the central bank’s deputy governor for financial stability, the Treasury announced on Tuesday....
...In his spring Budget, chancellor Jeremy Hunt increased the annual allowance to £60,000 and also abolished the LTA....
...Sarah Breeden, a senior Bank of England official, will succeed Sir Jon Cunliffe as the central bank’s deputy governor for financial stability in November, the Treasury announced on Tuesday....
...The Wolf Hunt by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, translated by Sondra Silverston (Pushkin Press) The Israeli novelist’s fourth book probes the faultlines of race relations in the US....
...Last week chancellor Jeremy Hunt removed climate change from a list of four key priorities in a remit letter issued to the Bank of England committee responsible for financial stability....
...In today’s newsletter: Jane Fraser’s bold hire at Citigroup Private credits hunt for yield Sequoia’s clean-up job Citi bets on one of JPMorgan’s top bankers Investment bankers at JPMorgan Chase sometimes...
...Prosek Partners, the communications firm, has hired Jon Schwartz as a managing director to launch a new sports business strategic communications practice....
...First, as the Independent’s Jon Stone observes in a handy Twitter thread, it is hard to see how it is logistically possible to turn Old Oak Common into HS2’s terminus, even temporarily, without putting unmanageable...
...Estimated costs for the Euston redevelopment have risen from around £2.8bn to nearly £4bn in 2019 prices, according to an internal document presented last year to HS2’s board by Sir Jon Thompson, the former...
...The next MPC vacancy will come later this year when Jon Cunliffe, BoE deputy governor for financial stability, retires....
...An initial hunt collapsed in 2013 after Cumbria county council pulled out, ending the “uncertainty and worry” that the council’s leader at the time, Eddie Martin, said it had triggered....
...| The Independent’s Jon Stone reports that Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are in discussions about scrapping the second stage of the HS2 rail project as costs spiral amid severe delays....
...Peel Hunt cut its estimates on operating profit, warning there would need to be signs of a reversal in the trend of falling audiences to achieve “a revitalisation in the stock”....
...But Hunt says his own attempts to switch off remain a work-in-progress....
...These include Jim Durkin, one of Cenkos’s founding shareholders and its former chief executive and, on the FinnCap side, British venture capitalist Jon Moulton....
...Despite the recent string of deals, the hunt is very much still on. “We still have some capacity to do some more, but it’s not unlimited....
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